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Page 5 <br />Figure 2 DOMESTIC ANIMAL DISPOSITION -TOTAL COUNTY <br />Redemption by owner...... <br />Adoptions..... ••766...12% <br />Euthanized ......'.........1401...220 <br />TOTAL.... •.........4191...66% <br />..•...•..........6358..100% <br />Overall, it appears that the adoption of the 1988 Animal <br />Control ordinance is beginning to make a <br />controlling the numbers of animals impounded �and eultimately <br />euthanized each year in Orange County. <br />VICIOUS ANIMAL CONTROL <br />County ordinance defines a vicious animal as an animal <br />that bites in an unprovoked manner while on or off the owner <br />property. Registered security dogs are not included in the <br />definition while on the owners property. s <br />North Carolina State law requires that all animal bites be <br />reported within a 24 hour period. <br />When an Animal Control officer receives a report of an <br />animal bite inflicted on a human, he /she will <br />animal for a 10 day period for rabies observation. Thee the <br />quarantine site is dependent upon the animals rabies <br />vaccination status, the owner's <br />the confinement area. the control history and <br />rabies observation are quarantinedlat4home, animals held for <br />of <br />some extent, the County Shelter. The fact that l4v out , <br />of o10 <br />animals can be quarantined at home demonstrates a measure of <br />pet responsibility. <br />During the quarantine <br />Will investigate the bite report. <br />Animal Control officer <br />the animal bit in an unprovoked mannf it is determined that <br />that his /her animal has been declared vicious owner <br />and ordeeredtoed <br />confine the animal on the property. <br />to surrender the animal for euthanasia. <br />not animals are --not adopted. -- - <br />Animals that have bitten or killed other animals may also <br />be declared vicious animals and their owners are 0xd -eyed to <br />restrain -the a -imal on the property. <br />Ninety three animal bites to humans were investigated this <br />fiscal year by-county officers, a slight decrease from <br />Year- As Orange Count <br />Y has been assisting the Town of last <br />